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Church of All Nations

East Jerusalem, Palestine · built 1924

The Church of All Nations (Hebrew: כנסיית כל העמים; Arabic: كنيسة كل الأمم), also known as the Church of Gethsemane or the Basilica of the Agony (Latin: Basilica Agoniæ Domini), is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed before his arrest. (Mark 14:32–42) The reasons for its construction in the 1920s were complex, with some political factors.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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